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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
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Langston Hughes
Age: 66 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 22
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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-
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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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